GOP senator: Barring Trump from Colorado ballot a 'blatant political decision'
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday blasted the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that former President Trump should be barred from the ballot in that state under the 14th Amendment as “a blatant...
View ArticleJudge allows prosecutors to access Rep. Perry's communications leading up to...
A federal judge late Tuesday allowed prosecutors access to nearly 1,700 text messages from Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), concluding after a personal review that his communications in the lead-up to Jan....
View ArticleHawley blocks McConnell-backed nominees, escalating feud
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is throwing a wrench into Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s (Ky.) effort to confirm two former aides to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the National...
View ArticleTrump blocked from Colorado ballot: 5 takeaways
The Colorado Supreme Court’s extraordinary decision disqualifying former President Trump for office under the 14th Amendment ignited a firestorm among politicians and legal observers, who now stare...
View ArticleTrump asks Supreme Court to delay consideration of Jan. 6 immunity arguments
Former President Trump’s legal team asked the Supreme Court to hold off on weighing whether he is immune from prosecution after special counsel Jack Smith asked the high court to assess the issue....
View ArticleSenate adjourns until 2024 without deal on Ukraine, border security
The Senate wrapped up its work for the year Wednesday without a deal on Ukraine funding or border security, and senators are not scheduled to return to Washington until Jan. 8. A group of Senate and...
View ArticleColorado court's Trump decision risks blunting Haley momentum
The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove former President Trump from the state’s primary ballot is posing a political conundrum for primary rival Nikki Haley, who has seen a burst of momentum...
View ArticleGiuliani files for bankruptcy after staggering $148M verdict
Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy Thursday, days after a jury ordered him to pay a staggering $148 million to two ex-Georgia election workers Giuliani baselessly accused of committing fraud in the...
View ArticleJordan expands probe into Smith's handling of Trump cases
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) expanded his probe into special counsel Jack Smith, asking him to turn over all documents and records related to his prosecutions of former President Trump....
View ArticleSpeaker Johnson urges Biden to take executive action on the border
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is asking President Biden to take executive actions related to the border, including implementing stricter immigration enforcement policies and restarting construction of...
View ArticleSupreme Court won’t take up Trump’s criminal immunity, for now
The Supreme Court declined to take up whether President Trump can be prosecuted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, punting for now the question on the limits of presidential immunity as...
View ArticleGOP points fingers after disappointing year
For House Republicans, the first year of their new majority was a lesson in humility, plagued by infighting, historic expulsions and dashed exceptions. Don’t just count the nearly four weeks without...
View ArticleTrump asks appeals court to toss election subversion case
Former President Trump's lawyers asked a federal appeals court to toss his 2020 election subversion case in Washington, D.C., just one day after the Supreme Court declined special counsel Jack Smith's...
View ArticleJudge rules Twitter, now X, breached contract by blocking millions of pay...
(The Hill) -- A federal judge ruled Friday that Twitter, now known as X, breached its contract with employees when it failed to pay millions in promised bonuses last year. The company promised...
View ArticleFears grow over AI's impact on the 2024 election
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is raising concerns about how the technology could impact next year’s election as the start of 2024 primary voting nears. AI — advanced tech that can...
View ArticleManchin launches new political organization, listening tour
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is set to kick off his new organization’s listening tour next month, with a speaking engagement at the New England Council and the New Hampshire Institute of Politics event...
View ArticleYe posts Hebrew-language apology to Jewish community
(The Hill) – Rapper Ye, formerly Kanye West, deleted all the content on his Instagram page Tuesday and posted a Hebrew-language apology to the Jewish community after years of antisemitic comments. “I...
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What to know about the migrant caravan heading to the US
A migrant caravan departed Mexico's southern city of Tapachula on Monday, as the Biden administration ratchets up pressure on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to impose tighter limits on...
View ArticleFears grow of a wider Middle East conflict
An Israeli strike Monday that killed an Iranian officer in Syria is the latest development to renew fears of a wider conflict in the Middle East as the war in Gaza continues to rage with a mounting...
View ArticleSpeaker Johnson enters 2024 with warring GOP factions
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) heads into the New Year facing a daunting legislative to-do list, a tiny window to get it passed and a warring GOP conference that will complicate his strategy at every...
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